Ann Patchett
speaker
1,333 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Ann Patchett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Strangers.
the most important thing is that you don't engage with anybody you don't know as a method of keeping yourself safe and
I understand.
I mean, I understand terrible things happen, but for every one terrible thing that happens.
A million good things happen and and if you cut yourself off from the potential of the terrible thing, you're also cutting yourself off from the potential of just
the kindness of daily interaction and and the warmth of connecting with other people and their dogs when you're out there.
Okay, so the book is called Whistler.
And Whistler is a horse.
And Whistler the Horse is on the cover of the book.
Whistler is what we call a bay.
So sort of a chestnut brown.
And she has a couple of white stockings and a white blaze.
And she is standing in a field in Wyoming.
There's a night sky behind her.
She's got on her saddle, her bridle is hanging down, and it's because the horse has run away.
And then three days later the horse has come back.
And it was very important to me that the horse be looking out at the viewer.
And when Noah Saderstrom painted this painting, I said, Can you make the horse look straight ahead?
And he said, The eyes are on the side of their head.
Head.
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